15 Oct 08 Learn How Not to Get Banned from Google AdSense
Well, this is probably not very new topic for you. However, I still would like to discuss from my point of view and a few solutions that you can prevent from getting banned from Google AdSense Online Advertising and Publishing Program.
Okay, I am a member at Digital Point Forums, the place is like a gateway to the Webmaster A-to-Z knowledge, I have seen brilliant guys and ladies helping each other over there. I learned a lot of things I have never ever known of. And to the irony, I notice something everyday, It’s like “My site got banned from Google” or “My site is no longer indexed in Google”, It is like having a breakfast every morning for me, Because when I login to digital point, that’s what i see every morning.
I know we loving reading, but not really what it comes to reading things like terms & conditions and TOS and disclaimers and copyright and oh, the list goes on and on. Absolutely, you don’t need to read all those boring things but all you need is just follow these proper procedures & you will never need to read boring stuff.
- Use Unique content (I have mentioned of this several times already LOL)
- Must have at least 20 unique content pages of your site (This is more about getting approval instead of ban, but unique content pages are always a plus)
- Don’t use Hidden Texts or change the codes given (Using small display texts and load with rich keywords)
- Do not use bots or click frauds (Do not cheat, because all the potential fraud clicks and counts will be refunded back to original Advertiser, Think of yourself as an advertiser, you will love to have targeted audience with true human visitors, so As a publisher, treat the same as how you would like to be treated)
- Use the AdSense approved formats only (You have several formats to display, more than enough, but don’t be super-smart, you will be banned)
- Don’t click on your own ads (everyone needs to know, that’s very important and tempting sometimes when you see the ads, of course you can click other ads when you really are surfing, but keep in mind, no clicking on your ads, not even ONCE, period), It has been well documented one person was banned having click twice his ads within 24 hours, so keep your hands away from your own ADS.
- Don’t do overkill Ads placement on a single page, 3 Ad Links or 3 Ad Units. Besides, it will decrease your conversion rate and 90% of visitors hate full of ads page. (Simply follow Goggle’s rules)
- Don’t display similar Ads as Google (Keep in mind that you have to satisfy the big guy Google, don’t mess up with similar ads such as Adbrite text ads on the left and Adsense on the right)
- Never tell/write in your contents anyone to encourage, persuade, push or trick to click your ads, you will get banned. (Google use several variations and conditions to check your page content and relevancy, check out my article about Google and its technology, you will be amazed how smart their search engines and hypertext analysis methods are)
- Use single Google account to maintain several websites/AdSense Channels. It is a must, if you have 100 websites, you can still use your singleaccount@gmail.com, don’t do multiple accounts for multiple sites. (This is also help you to protect identify theft and will save a lot of time for Google to make a quick payment, meaning, we all get money faster)
- If you want to label them, use “sponsored links” or “advertisements”, other keywords are not allowed. (Don’t make labels like NGO supported, donation welcome or me love you long time, in this case, you will be banned and your arse will be burned)
- Never launch a new page in new windows if you are linking inbound links. (That is multiple pages pressuring visitors to click your ads, and that is wrong, all inbound links, do not open in a new window)
- Use Ads on content pages (don’t create blank page with ads, you will be banned, don’t create copy/paste materials all the time, you will be banned, don’t use terrible design & layout, you won’t be banned, but many people hate them
) - Do not try to cover ads elements, you see like “google ads” >> << things like that, don’t try to hide them under something and don’t try to trick Google. (You will be banned. Google nicely allows you to use different background color to fit in with your content pages. Yes, use Blend, it will fit in nicely most of the times)
- Check your contents all the time. Don’t just throw cheap contents just to make your site stuff. Always aware of your contents. That’s very important. (Of course, your contents should be free of pornographic, hate-related, violent, or illegal content)
- Don’t over advertise your ads. (Google allows you to enter relevant keywords, but don’t over do with rich keywords again)
- Do not trick with images and texts of ads. (Trying to portray like images and texts are related in order to make visitors to click, you will be banned)
- My Site PR7 PageRank for sale (Don’t try to sell pagerank, it is not a right, it’s a privilege, so don’t screw yourself, since your site has good PageRank, it’s even better for Google to trace your activities, oops, you have done a lot of great SEO works and everything you write, Google will find out faster than the potential buyers)
- Don’t do link farms with Adsense. (Search engine crawlers hate link farms, so make sure who you are connected to, be relevant with your discussion as well, experts said if you have more than 100 links in a page, that is very likely your site creditability will be low and maybe exclude or discount you from page ranking system, heard the stories of PR5 to PR2 in 2 days?)
- Make sure there is NO pop-up ads or pop-under ads on your site (that’s another “How to Get banned from Google AdSense in a 24 hours guide book”, just kidding)
- Provide a good environment for advertisers (They are paying money to you, so be nice, be informative when you give out facts, be true to visitors, so Google can assign related ads to your sites, don’t worry about the keywords rate, once you are true to your visitors, you always get rewarded).
- Be Alerted and Active (Always update your current emails if Google sent u important emails, some people got banned because they don’t response on time and not follow the Google guidelines within given period)
- Don’t use black hat SEO and Pay-To-Click services around your site. Be square and Be Fair to honest people who uses SEO methods honestly and advertisers who want to get their products or services known.
Well, I don’t so smartly come up with all these great suggestions all by myself even though I read whatever it is necessary to create this post.
So, Thanks to these people, not in order, but equally grateful to have read your articles in the past. All the credits go to these fabulous people who also inspired me to write about this article.
Any comments and suggestions are welcome, Thanks for reading my longest post on my site. And Happy Earning Google AdSense in the future. 
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In regard to the “No Pop Ups” guideling, does this include pop-ups that are used for Opt-In purposes?
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Actually, it depends on the pop-up, for opt-in ones are not really blocked as it is built in and also yahoo uses as well.
However, I do not feel encourage about those opt-in pop up as well, I will never do so, I have been sharing all my e-books without any kind of pop-up or pop-under.. but I believe they are exempted as pop-up.
hope that helps
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bryce Reply:
February 18th, 2009 at 12:04 PM
Cool, thatnks for the response. Because of the way the site works, I will leave it intact. But I will try to leave them out of any future sites.
Regards
Bryce
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Linn Reply:
February 21st, 2009 at 9:45 AM
fantastic.. as long as it doesn’t bother visitors.. personally, i don’t use it, but it’s not that i dislike it or anything, I just don’t follow many things and I stick to my experiments and stay with it.. but this post is actually not my ideas entirely, I actually learned and think some meself to create a better compilations so that everyone can actually learn how not to get banned.
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aacrepairbible@gmail.com – This is GREAT INFORMATION! Moderator please forward my email address to anyone who has gotten banned so I can help them.
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very informative post… you might also find this article to be of some use as well – reading it certainly changed the way i handle things now. best of luck and i look forward to reading future posts from you!
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